NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

4404 points

111% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

91 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

64 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

90 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

50 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

2969.98 points

480% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

85838 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

80080 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

1500 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

50 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

83% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2560

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

208th of 601

114th of 601

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q at 90 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.